Comments on: Sun: Let My Office Suite Go! http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Dan Gheorghe Somnea http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-545 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:14:45 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-545 Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org 2.3.x ? A friend in need is a friend indeed ! I have JVM on my laptop. I use Java! I use the OpenOffice.Org 2.3.0 package on and off. It is good but not excellent! http://dan.somnea.free.fr/2C/ 2 pages dedicated for MS Office and Sun OpenOffice initiation. Hug OpenOffice ... Dan Gheorghe Sun Microsystems’ OpenOffice.org 2.3.x ?

A friend in need is a friend indeed !

I have JVM on my laptop. I use Java!
I use the OpenOffice.Org 2.3.0 package on and off. It is good but not excellent!

http://dan.somnea.free.fr/2C/
2 pages dedicated for MS Office and Sun OpenOffice initiation.

Hug OpenOffice …

Dan Gheorghe

]]> by: Jason Perlow http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-541 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:44:03 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-541 Oh, I definitely think Java, paricularly a fully open source and unencumbered one, is a very good thing. See my other column on this matter at: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3653/ Oh, I definitely think Java, paricularly a fully open source and unencumbered one, is a very good thing. See my other column on this matter at:

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3653/

]]> by: Dan Allen http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-540 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:19:30 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-540 I don't see dependencies on Java being any more negative than dependencies on Mono or some other next-generation (in terms of the Linux desktop) platforms (in fact, I see it as a move in the right direction). Java is undergoing a migration path to become GPL free. My belief is that Sun is doing its part to unravel the platform from its less-than-opensource roots. I feel we should be patient because the Java development platform espouses one of the important goals of Linux, compatibility. I think "write once, run anywhere" is a stretch, but at least the software can be compiled on any machine that has a JDK. What we need to do, as a community, is not to try to tear programs like OpenOffice.org away from Java, but continue to hold (pressure) Sun to their promise of GPL'ing Java...ALL of Java. I don’t see dependencies on Java being any more negative than dependencies on Mono or some other next-generation (in terms of the Linux desktop) platforms (in fact, I see it as a move in the right direction). Java is undergoing a migration path to become GPL free. My belief is that Sun is doing its part to unravel the platform from its less-than-opensource roots. I feel we should be patient because the Java development platform espouses one of the important goals of Linux, compatibility. I think “write once, run anywhere” is a stretch, but at least the software can be compiled on any machine that has a JDK.

What we need to do, as a community, is not to try to tear programs like OpenOffice.org away from Java, but continue to hold (pressure) Sun to their promise of GPL’ing Java…ALL of Java.

]]> by: ppmoore http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-539 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:39:05 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-539 Another sad story of wasteful and duplicated Linux development. I'll add another prediction to Jason's. As long as there are duplicated toolkits, duplicated desktops, duplicated/forked application, etc, Linux will never become mainstream on the desktop. The users are sheep, abd they want a standard imposed upon them, even if it is inferior. Witness MS's success. Another sad story of wasteful and duplicated Linux development.

I’ll add another prediction to Jason’s. As long as there are duplicated toolkits, duplicated desktops, duplicated/forked application, etc, Linux will never become mainstream on the desktop. The users are sheep, abd they want a standard imposed upon them, even if it is inferior. Witness MS’s success.

]]> by: briceg http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-538 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:30:25 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4178/#comment-538 "But, if open source software is really supposed to be free..." That premise is incorrect. “But, if open source software is really supposed to be free…”

That premise is incorrect.

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